One of the first key users of NERSC’s Magellan cloud computing system was DOE’s Joint Genome Institute (JGI). In March, the facility had a sudden need for increased computing resources, and in less than three days, NERSC and JGI staff provisioned and configured hundreds of processor cores on the Magellan system to match the computing environment available on JGI’s local compute clusters.
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